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The Weaving of a Dream: A Chinese Folktale Retold / for Older and Marilee Heyer (j 398.2 CHINA Hey) Three sons set out on a journey to find a tapestry stolen by .

Tam Lin / retold by Jane Yolen (j 398.2 SCOTLAND Yol) Younger Readers A Scottish girl reclaims her home which the fairies have held for years.

A Child’s Book of / Tanya Robyn Batt (j 398.21 Bat) Suggestions from the Mt. Lebanon Public Library These titles may be found in Juvenile Fiction unless otherwise noted Diane Goode’s Book of & Little People / Diane Goode (j 398.21 Goo)

Elves and Fairies / John Hamilton (j 398.21 Ham) The Boy in the Oak / Jessica Albarn When a boy tries to burn down the Druidic oak behind the cottage where he The Secret Life of Fairies / Penelope Larkspur (j 398.21 Lar) lives, angry Faeries absorb him into the tree, and when, years later, a new family with a little girl takes over the long abandoned house, the Faeries fear more The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, , and Other Secret Be- trouble. Gr. 4+ ings / Lise Lunge-Larsen (j 398.21 Lun)

The Little People: Stories of Fairies, , and Other Small Folk / Neil The Various / Steve Augarde Philip (j 398.21 Phi) A girl finds that she has a special connection to a tribe of strange and wild fairies that live in the nearby woods. Book one in the Touchstone series. Gr. 4+ Little Folk: Stories From Around the World / Paul Robert Walker (j 398.21 Wal) The Fairy Rebel / Lynne Reid Banks A rebellious fairy risks getting in trouble with the when she Magical Creatures / Meg Clibbon (j 398.4 Cli) decides to help a human. Gr. 3+

Imps, , , , Fairies & / Leonard Baskin Hailey Twitch Is Not a Snitch / Lauren Barnholdt (j 398.45 Bas) Second-grader Hailey's frustration over a school project releases Maybelle, a

Fairies / Charlotte Guillain (j 398.45 Gui) whose punishment for being a rulemonger will end when she grants Hailey’s wish to have fun, but Maybelle’s efforts only seem to cause trouble. Fairies and Elves / Shannon Knudsen (j 398.45 Knu) Book one in the Hailey Twitch series. Gr. K+

Fairies / John Malam (j 398.45 Mal) Come Fall / A.C.E. Bauer Drawn together by a mentoring program and an unusual crow, middle school misfits Salman, Lu, and Blos form a strong friendship despite teasing by fellow Mt. Lebanon Public Library students and the maneuverings of fairies , Titania, and . Gr. 3+ 16 Castle Shannon Blvd. The Field Guide / Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (j BLACK) Pittsburgh, PA 15228 The Grace children discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures in their (412) 531-1912 Aunt’s old house. Book one in the The Spiderwick Chronicles. Gr. 3+ www.mtlebanonlibrary.org The Peculiar / Stefan Bachmann Updated June 2013 After humans win the faery wars in , a half-human, half-faery child, scorned by both races, finds himself at the center of a web of intrigue and 8 danger when he is stalked by a sinister faery. Gr. 4+ Fairy Stories for Older and Younger Readers Fairy Stories for Older and Younger Readers Modern Fairies, Dwarves, , & Other Nasties: A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate / Lesley M.M. Blume Poetry A compendium of practical information and cautionary tales about fairies and other similar magical creatures that might be encountered in modern cities, The Book of Little Folk: Faery Stories and Poems From Around the World / Lauren Mills (j 808.8 Mil) intended to help the child who may come into contact with them. Gr. 4+

Elves, Fairies & / Lee Bennett (j 808.81 Hop) Small Persons With Wings / Ellen Booraem When Mellie Turpin’s grandfather dies and leaves her family his run-down inn The Fairies’ Ring: A Book of Fairy Stories & Poems / and bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy collected and adapted by Jane Yolen (j 808.81 Yol) guardians. Now that the fairies want a missing ring returned, the Turpins Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Fairy Poems / Stephen W. Hines (j 811 Wil) become involved in a series of magical adventures as they try to locate it. Gr. 4+

Pish and Posh / Barbara Bottner (j Er BOTTNER) Fairies, , & Goblins Galore: Poems About Creatures / Dilys Evans (j 811.08 Eva) When Pish and Posh discover fairy magic, they face a series of wacky surprises.

Birdie’s Book / Jan Bozarth : In Art and Poetry / illustrated by Richard Doyle (j 821.08 Fai)

When twelve-year-old Birdie goes to meet her grandmother, who is estranged Bottom’s Dream by John Updike (j 822.3 Upd) from Birdie’s mother, she learns a secret which leads to fantastic adventures, Bottom becomes involved in a dispute between the King and Queen of fairies. new understanding, and a renewed closeness among members of her family. Book one in the Academy series. Gr. 4+ ’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream / retold by Bruce Coville (j 822.33 Cov) Summerland / Michael Chabon A simplified version of Shakespeare's play about the events that take place in a The worst baseball player in the history of the game is called upon to help a inhabited by fairies. band of fairies beat an ancient enemy. Gr. 4+

Artemis Fowl / Eoin Colfer Art & Projects A 12-year-old boy captures a fairy for the ransom but the fairies fight back. Book one in the Artemis Fowl series. Gr. 4+ Fairy Houses—Everywhere! / Barry Kane (j 398.21 Kan)

Fourth Grade Fairy / Eileen Cook Fairy Things To Stitch and Sew / Fiona Watt (j 642.2 Wat) When fairy-godmother-in-training Willow's wish to attend a human school comes true, she finds getting along with humans to be harder than she ex- Kids Draw , Elves, Fairies & More / Christopher Hart (j 743.87 Har) pected, but her magical talent makes it easy to collaborate with animals. Gr. 3+ Ralph Masiello’s Fairy Drawing Book / Ralph Masiello (j 743.87 Mas)

The World’s Worst Fairy Godmother / Bruce Coville Fairy Things To Make and Do / Rebecca Gilpin (j 745.5 Gil) Fairy Godmother Maybelle Clodnowski casts spells that backfire. Gr. 3+ Fairy World Crafts / Kathy Ross (j 745.5 Ros) Rise of the Darklings / Paul Crilley After saving a piskie’s life, twelve-year-old Emily Snow finds herself in the Fairy Fun: A Child’s Fairyland of Enchanting Projects and Magical Games / Marla Schram Schwartz (j 745.5 Sch) middle of a centuries-old war between rival fairy factions and a secret society named The Invisible Order. Book one of the Invisible Order series. Gr. 4+ The Midnight Fairy Craft and Party Book / Tracy Marsh (j 793.21 Mar)

The Cats of Tanglewood Forest / Charles de Lint Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures. Gr. 3+ 2 7 Fairy Stories for Older and Younger Readers Fairy Stories for Older and Younger Readers Under the Green Hill / Laura L. Sullivan The Baby / Berlie Doherty While staying with distant relatives in England, four Americans children, along After nine-year-old Tam’s baby sister is stolen away by faeries and replaced by a with their new neighbors, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the goblin baby, he must journey to the land of the faeries to retrieve her and bring Midsummer War required by the local fairies. Gr. 4+ her back home. Gr. 2+

The New Policeman / Kate Thompson Silence and Stone / Kathleen Duey Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na Kidnapped and confined to a room in a castle before she can develop her flying nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out and magical skills, Alida the patiently plans her escape—with the help of a lot about his family history and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not a human boy. Book one in the Faeries’ Promise series. Gr. 3+ have committed. The Star Shard / Frederic S. Durbin The Last of the High Kings / Kate Thompson A twelve-year-old slave on a gigantic, traveling “wagon city” joins forces with a When eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy, in turmoil over learning that she is a new—and magical—slave. As they plan their escape they encounter mystery, , makes a deal with a devil creature, she endangers the human race enchantment, and deadly while their one chance for freedom draws but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of 's ever nearer. Gr. 4+ high kings help to make things right. Gr. 6+ Zeee / Elizabeth Enright In a Blink / Kiki Thorpe Zeee doesn’t like humans because they unknowingly destroy her homes, but When four friends are whisked out of their ordinary lives to Never Land, home then she is befriended by a girl who can see her. Gr. 2+ to fairies and , Queen Clarion and Tinker Bell have to figure out a way for them to get home. Book one in The Never Girls series. Gr. 1+ I, Coriander / Sally Gardner In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her Aurelie: A Faerie Tale / Heather Tomlinson mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an Heartsick at losing her two dearest companions, Princess Aurelie finds comfort inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born. Gr. 5+ in the glorious music of the faeries. Gr. 6+ Fifth grade magic / Beatrice Gormley When Fairies Go Bad / Ursula Vernon Gretchen is visited by a well-meaning but inefficient fairy godmother. Gr. 3+ Danny's mother has disappeared into a growing in her backyard vegetable garden, and Danny and his friends, Wendell and Christiana, must go The Ugly Princess and the Wise by Margaret Gray to Faerie to try to save her. Book seven in the Dragonbreath series. Gr. 3+ A plain princess and a wise fool find answers to their together, with a little help from Fairy Godmothers. Gr. 3+ Dust City / Robert Paul Weston Henry Whelp, son of the Big Bad Wolf, investigates what happened to the Claws / Mike Grinti fairies that used to protect humans and animalia, and what role the corporation Twelve-year-old Emma Vu moves into a trailer park inhabited by magical that manufactures synthetic fairy dust played in his father's crime. Gr. 6+ beings known collectively as crags and begins learning cat magic in hopes of finding her missing sister, Helena. Gr. 4+ Catwitch / Una Woodruff A special kitten is persuaded by fairies to go with them to fairyland to save The Book of Fairies / Michael Hague their prince. Collection of stories about fairies. Gr. 3+

Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of / Jane Yolen Witch Catcher / Mary Downing Hahn Accident-prone, thirteen-year-old Gorse, the youngest fairy in her family, falls Having just moved into the home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve- into a trap while on her way to the palace to bless the newborn princess, Talia, year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but arrives in time to give a gift which, although seemingly horrific, may prove but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants. Gr. 3+ to be a real blessing in this take-off on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty. Gr. 4+

6 3 Fairy Stories for Older and Younger Readers Fairy Stories for Older and Younger Readers 13 Treasures / Michelle Harrison The Moorchild / Eloise McGraw Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to A changeling tries to find the human child whose place she has taken. Gr. 4+ stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery The Hunter’s Moon / O.R. Melling Two teenage cousins, one Irish, the other from the United States, set out to find that Tanya's life is in danger. Book one in the 13 Treasures series. Gr. 5+ a magic doorway to the Faraway Country, where humans must bow to the little A Furl of Fairy Wind: Four Stories / Mollie Hunter people. Book one in the Chronicles of Faerie series. Gr. 6+ Stories in which people and fairies & brownies meet for the first time. Gr. 3+ Five Children and It / E. Nesbit Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children / Conn Iggulden Four brothers and sisters discover a wish-granting sand-fairy. Gr. 3+ Tollins have wings, but they aren't fairies. When a fireworks factory is using Dear / Jane O’Connor (j Er O’CONNOR) Tollins as industrial supplies, a young Tollin must save his people. Gr. 2+ Robby is upset about being the only child in class who has not lost a tooth, so Twig / Elizabeth Orton Jones he writes a letter to the Tooth Fairy in hopes that she can help. When magic makes Twig very tiny, she finds befriends the Fairy Queen. Gr. 1+ A / Tony Ross The Faerie Path / Frewin Jones Young Bessie believes in fairies after she meets her new neighbor. Gr. 3+ Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day Airy Fairy: Magic Mischief! / Margaret Ryan London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, It’s nearly Christmas and all the fairies are looking forward to their Christmas the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania. Book one in the Faerie party. Except for Airy Fairy. Her school report card is so bad that she’s been Path series. Gr. 5+ sent to sit on top of a prickly Christmas tree! Gr. 1+

Philippa Fisher’s Fairy Godsister / Liz Kessler Magicalamity / Kate Saunders When Philippa learns that the new girl at school is her reluctant fairy godsister, Eleven-year-old Tom is shocked to learn that he is a demisprite—half fairy and Philippa tries to use her customary three wishes constructively. Gr. 3+ half mortal—and that he, aided by three fairy godmothers, must save his father, The Water-Babies / Charles Kingsley who is hiding in the fairy Realm, while safeguarding his mortal mother. Gr. 4+

The classic story of a small chimney sweep who is stolen by fairies and turned The Night Fairy / Laura Amy Schlitz into a water baby. Gr. 5+ When Flory the night fairy’s wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, Stories of Fairies / Anna Lester Gr. K+ she has to learn to do everything differently. Gr. 1+

Ella Enchanted / Gail Carson Levine The Changeling / Delia Sherman Ella’s Fairy Godmother gives her the gift of obedience. Gr. 4+ Neef is a Changeling, stolen to be raised by fairies, with a fairy left in her place. Living in Central Park and closely watched by her fairy family, all Neef wants is Dreams / Elizabeth Lindsay freedom, but in the fairy world, freedom can be deadly. Gr. 5+ Lila longs to go to Silverlake Fairy School to learn about , charms and fairy magic. It’s all she’s ever dreamed of, but spoiled Princess Bee Balm is The Circus Lunicus / Marilyn Singer determined to stand in Lila’s way. Book one in the Silverlake Fairy School series. An inflatable lizard turns into Solly’s fairy godmother and teaches him unusual tricks that have something to do with a celestial circus. Gr. 3+ The Gold Dust Letters / Janet Taylor Lisle During a difficult time, Angela gets letters from her fairy godmother. Gr. 3+ Fairy Dust / Jane Denitz Smith A girl is introduced to a magical fairy world by her new babysitter. Gr. 2+ The Book of Stories / William Mayne Hob is a friendly who lives under the stairs and protects the house from A Fairy Called Hilary / Linda Leopold Strauss evil beings. Gr. K+ A fairy’s magic makes everyday fun. 1+

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